- Summary
- Videotape testimony of David K., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1924. He describes the rich and cultured Jewish prewar life in Kraków; his happy childhood; German occupation in 1939; his uncle's unsuccessful attempts to help his family emigrate through Brussels to Uruguay; fleeing to Ciężkowice; his deportation to a labor camp in Pustków; his shock at the brutal shooting of a prisoner; forced labor building sewers; observing Jewish holidays; his sickness and hospitalization; returning to Ciężkowice; imprisonment with his father in Tarnów; returning to Ciężkowice; and his deportation to a labor camp in Mielec (he never saw his family again). Mr. K. relates receiving a last letter from his father; slave labor in a Heinkel airplane factory; attending a seder; hearing about Sobibor and not believing it; transfer to Wieliczka, then Flossenbürg; transfer to Hersbruck, then back to Flossenbürg; working as a mechanic in a privileged group; aid from a German foreman; hunger and beatings; evacuation in cattle cars to Schwarzenfeld; a death march; liberaiton by United States troops; transfer to the Weiden displaced persons camp; moving to Weidenau; marriage; Jewish community life in Weidenau; and emigration to the United States in 1949. Mr. K. shows ritual objects which he and his father had buried and his uncle recovered after the war.
- Author/Creator
- K., David, 1924-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1994
- Interview Date
- December 15, 1994.
- Locale
- Poland
Kraków (Poland)
Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie, Poland)
Ciężkowice (Poland)
Schwarzenfeld (Germany)
Weidenau (Germany)
- Cite As
- David K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2741). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Kline, Dana L., interviewer.
Rudof, Joanne Weiner, interviewer.